by Barry Brown | Jan 31, 2016 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning friends, Curacao is having some crazy high winds right now which is very unusual for this time of year. We also appear to be heading into another major drought, this could be the worst start of a year I have seen to date. I have a very cute Balloonfish for you all today that I found at dusk heading out one night for a night dive. Porcupinefish are medium- to large-sized fish, and are found in shallow temperate and tropical seas worldwide. A few species are found much further out from shore, wherein large schools of thousands of individuals can occur. They are generally slow by Barry Brown | Jan 29, 2016 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning all, so what’s better than finding one Spotted Drum?? That’s right, finding two, and what’s better than finding two Spotted Drums, the answer would be finding THREE!!! Some of my underwater photo friends out there know not only how cool it is to find these fish in numbers but to have the chance to get them all in one photo, it just plain doesn’t happen every day!! These are for sure some of the coolest fish in the sea and for sure the most graceful and gentle. by Admin | Jan 24, 2016 | Fish, Photography, Reef, Science
ABOUT Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last ten years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. He is currently working with the Smithsonian Institution documenting new Caribbean deep-water species and building a one of a kind database. His underwater images can regularly be seen in Sport Diver, Scuba Diver and on the Ikelite website. His image of a "Collage of Corals" seen under blue-light at night recently placed in the TOP 10 images for the 2014 NANPA (North American Nature Photographers Association) photo contest. by Barry Brown | Jan 23, 2016 | Fish, Photography, Reef, Science
Good morning, we have an overcast day on tap and it looks like it wants to rain but I think it just forgot how. We continue to do our early morning “save the wildlife” by bringing in water and bird food every morning to our two big feeding areas out in the desert. This morning I brought home a very sad looking hermit crab in a broken shell, it’s one of the worst homes I have seen. I have him now in a big bucket with other new shells so he should figure that out soon and discard the old nasty one, I will then take him back to where we found him. I have a pair of beautiful Banded Butterflyfish for you all today that were found parked up against a monster sized barrel sponge in around 70 feet of clear Caribbean H2O. by Barry Brown | Jan 13, 2016 | Fish, Reef, Science
Good morning gang, I came into work today but am still sick with the Curacao crud!! As of tomorrow it will be a week of coughing, aching and nose blowing and YES for those of you asking I did go to a doctor but even those pills don’t seem to be doing much. I wish I had some kind of exciting story to tell but I have been inside for a week, if there is any up-side to this it’s given me lots of time to prepare for our up and coming talks at the Smithsonian next month, I am going through old photos night and day… Your above photo was shot about a week ago on my last dive out in front of the Substation lagoon. This is my little buddy again that follows me everywhere, one of the coolest Scrawled Filefish I have ever seen! Hope you all are doing better than yours truly… Barry NEWER POST:
